Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:26:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Ben Schumacher <ben@henshaw.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph based MAC authentication Message-ID: <200009190426.VAA01480@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000913221340.00a04950@pop.henshaw.net> "from Ben Schumacher at Sep 13, 2000 10:27:17 pm"
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Ben Schumacher writes: > I'm working on a project where I need to be able to authenticate people by > their MAC address against a RADIUS server. While looking into the best way > to develop this, I starting toying around with netgraph and think it is the > perfect framework for what I'm trying to do. Basically what I'm going to > need to do (AFAIK) is divert the packets coming from one ethernet card > (dc0) to my netgraph node, verify their MAC address, and then push their > packet on its way. However, I'm still not entirely certain how to > implement this. You might be able to do this without writing your own node. Just use ng_bpf(4) and maintain the BPF program to match the MAC addresses you want to accept. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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